Our Killadelphia posts have decreased in frequency since the bad old days of 2021 and 2022, and naturally the city’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, claims that his policies are working, but it’s never a surprise when one killing leads to another in the City of Brotherly Love.

Shooting of Philly couple was likely retribution for earlier killing, sources say

Police are seeking Shariff Perry, 35, in connection with the fatal shooting on Sunday in Strawberry Mansion.

by Jillian Kramer | Thursday, August 13, 2026 | 3:33 PM EDT

The gunfire that killed a North Philadelphia woman and wounded her husband as the couple sat on their porch Sunday night may have been an act of retaliation for an earlier homicide, law enforcement sources said.

Amusingly enough, if you click on the link and hold your cursor over the page tab of the article, you’ll see the working title: “Philly man may have sought street justice when he killed woman, injured man in weekend shooting, sources say”. I’m not sure why the editors changed the headline, because it sure seems like Philly!

Shariff Perry, who police say killed Michelle Wilson, 61, and shot her 67-year-old husband, is the brother of a man authorities say was killed by the couple’s son, Evans, in 2022, according to the sources.

Authorities have not publicly disclosed a motive for the crime, but sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said retribution was the likely cause.

Surveillance video obtained from a business near Wilson’s home showed a man wearing a surgical mask and a hat approach the couple’s front porch, pull out a handgun, and open fire just before midnight. Wilson was pronounced dead moments later. Her husband survived.

The murder was in the 2800 block of North 24^th Street, a block of two-story row houses. Three nearby row homes have recently sold for $115,000, $127,000, and $150,000, well below Zillow’s $234,630 reported median home sale price in the city, but all anyone familiar with Philly knew that from the fact it was in Strawberry Mansion.

On Wednesday, police identified Perry, 35, as the suspected shooter. He remained at large Thursday.

Reached by phone, Wilson’s husband tearfully declined to be interviewed, as did his daughter.

The Wilsons’ son, Evans, is one of three people charged in the death of James Dunbar, 20, who was shot in the head on the 2800 block of North Taylor Street, less than a mile from where the Wilsons were shot, sources said.

Translation: it was gangs.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on six homicides during the past weekend:

Six people were killed in Philadelphia between Friday morning and Sunday night — five shot and one stabbed — in a wave of violence across the city, according to police.

At least two others were wounded in the spate of attacks, a jarring stretch of violence in a year that has otherwise been among the least deadly Philadelphia has recorded in decades.

At a news conference on Monday, District Attorney Larry Krasner acknowledged the weekend’s toll but pointed to the city’s steep drop in killings, arguing that a brutal few days had not erased months of historic progress.

“We had a bad weekend,” Krasner said. “We’re not having a bad year.”

Oh, I don’t know: 108 reported homicides might seem like a pretty bad year for the families of those pushing up daisies. 108 murders through last Sunday works out to a projected 178 for the year. With an estimated population of 1,573,916, that works out to a homicide rate of 11.33 per 100,000 population, certainly lower than previous years, but I can remember when Carbon County, current population 65,868, where I used to live in the Keystone State, went seven straight years without a single murder.

Lexington, Kentucky, current population 329,791, has seen four murders so far in 2026. Philly has 4.77 times Lexington’s population, but 27 times as many murders.

I think that says something.